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The Resilience of Southern Identity
Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same...
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. From "The Paris Sketch Book".
Beads, Bodies, and Trash
Public Sex, Global Labor, and the Disposability of Mardi Gras
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural Fuzhou, China. Beads, Bodies, and Trash will...
Il ritorno degli dei
Il sapere dimenticato di una civiltà perduta
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 18, 2016
DOPO IMPRONTE DEGLI DEI, 10 MILIONI DI COPIE VENDUTE NEL MONDO,
L'ATTESISSIMO NUOVO BESTSELLER DI GRAHAM HANCOCK Vent’anni fa Graham Hancock ha scritto «Impronte degli dèi», un libro che esamina in una chiave rivoluzionaria il passato dell’umanità aprendo la strada a un nuovo concetto di archeologia....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders...
Civilization and Monsters
Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2000
Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind...
by Bob Fields
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Boys author Bob Fields depicts an accurate and vivid description of young adolescent males in the 1940's & early 1950's in rural Maine. Fields’ perceptive analysis of boy’s personality traits and how they influence their attitude toward life (and girls) is on target. The onset of testosterone...
Traditional Food
A Taste of Korean Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Nowadays, with healthy living and the 'slow food' movement receiving spotlight worldwide, Korean cuisine is drawing much interest as a healthy cuisine with nutritional harmony and balance. In fact, Koreans have traditionally viewed food as 'medicine,' a means to keep oneself healthy and strong.
(..)Korea's...
Licht op het noorden
Stine in Scandinavie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Scandinavië is in opkomst. De Scandinavische talen, ooit beschouwd als de lelijkste talen ter wereld, zijn tegenwoordig hip. Iedereen leest Scandinavische misdaadliteratuur, koopt zijn inrichting bij Ikea en is in de ban van Borgen en The Killing. Maar hoe is het echte leven in het Noorden? Zijn...
Sweden's Dark Soul
The Unravelling of a Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation....
Ethnography
Principles in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice, and includes a new chapter on ‘Ethnography in the digital world’.
The authors...
Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony
The voices of tea practitioners in northern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chadō) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, the book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chadō system at grass roots level. Making critical use of Bourdieu’s...
The Culture of Copying in Japan
Critical and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book challenges the perception of Japan as a ‘copying culture’ through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.
It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese apparently assimilate all things foreign...
Lost Tea Rooms of Downtown Cincinnati
Reflections & Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
It was a different time. Ladies wore gloves, hats and nice attire to luncheons at the Woman's Exchange. Shillito's provided a cosmopolitan environment for its patrons, while Mullane's was the perfect place to sip and socialize. The popular Good Morning Show radio program hosted by charming Bob Braun,...